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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois, United States)en_US
dc.coverage.temporal1945-1946 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorMies van der Rohe, Ludwigen_US
dc.creatorHolabird & Rooten_US
dc.date1945-1946en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-07T19:26:27Z
dc.date.available2013-05-07T19:26:27Z
dc.date.issued1945-1946en_US
dc.identifier214336en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 723en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/121718
dc.descriptionGeneral view; Alumni Hall was Mies van der Rohe's first classroom building on the campus. As he did in most of the academic buildings which followed, Mies used a module a bay 24 feet long, 24 feet wide and 12 feet high to allow for flexibility and efficiency in laying out classrooms, labs, and offices. The steel grid of the building's curtain wall suggests the actual steel structure within. City codes mandate that structural steel frames in buildings taller than one story be encased in fireproof material. A large two-story space on the north side, originally intended for use by the Naval ROTC unit, was divided and converted to other uses in 1972. Currently only one 24-foot bay remains a two-story space. Alumni Memorial Hall is home to IIT's Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering. Source: The Mies van der Rohe Society (IIT) [website]; http://www.mies.iit.edu/ (accessed 12/2/2007)en_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectModernisten_US
dc.subjectInternational Style (modern European architecture style)en_US
dc.titleAlumni Memorial Hallen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-MVR-II-E1en_US
vra.culturalContextAmericanen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypeclassroomen_US
vra.worktypeuniversityen_US
dc.contributor.displayHolabird & Root (American architectural firm, renamed 1928); Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (German architect, 1886-1969)en_US


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